KEY NUMBER SYSTEM This is a Key-Numbered Volume Each syllabus paragraph in this volume is marked with the topic and Key-Number section under which the point will eventually appear in the American Digest System. The lawyer is thus led from that syllabus to the exact place in the Digests where we, as digest makers, have placed the other cases on the same point---This is the Key-Number Annotation. THE FEDERAL REPORTER WITH KEY-NUMBER ANNOTATIONS VOLUME 246 PERMANENT EDITION CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND WITH TABLE OF CASES IN WHICH REHEARINGS HAVE BEEN JANUARY-MARCH, 1918 ST. PAUL WEST PUBLISHING CO. 1. The plaintiff in error or appellant in this court shall be entitled to open and conclude the argument of the case. But when there are cross-appeals they shall be argued together as one case, and the plaintiff in the court below shall be entitled to open and conclude the argument. 2. Only two counsel will be heard for each party on the argument of a case. 3. Upon appeals from orders granting or refusing a preliminary injunction or appointing a receiver, and upon appeals in habeas corpus matters and upon appeals and petitions to revise in bankruptcy, onehalf hour on each side; upon writs of error three-quarters of an hour on each side, and in other cases one hour on each side will be allowed. No more time than above specified will be allowed without special leave of the court granted before the argument begins. The time thus allowed may be apportioned between the counsel on the same side at their discretion, provided always that a fair opening of the case shall be made by the party having the opening and closing argument. 4. Any case entitled to be heard at any term or session of the court may be submitted by either or both of the parties on briefs. Consent to submit a case on briefs may be filed at any time prior to, or at the time the case is reached for hearing. 1916. Subdivisions 1, 2, and 4 adopted November 1, 1914, and amended June 2, 1 See, also, rules 35 (231 Fed. v, 144 C. C. A. v) and 36 (208 Fed. v, 124 C. C. A. v). |